Hey Brian
-Jim
Comments (4)
Brian Norton
Sunday, November 25, 2007 11:03:00 PM PST
i see you have made an entrance into the blogging scene, it is good to have you!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:11:00 PM PST
You rock! Jim - you should do some work on this dude.
Brian - I knew you'd love this idea.
Rick
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:29:00 AM PST
Hey Brian - the shading on the left margin of the blog page design is obscuring the text. Do you want to go to white or eliminate that shading? Also check with Rachel tomorrow to see if she wants to post her video on your site.
You've done a wonderful job.
Rick
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:40:00 PM PST
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families I will refer to as WWTI throughout the scope of this blog and this mission to provide credibility and understanding to the audacity of the actions that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. A good reference point to start is to analyze the history of a nation. Rwanda is situated in the heart of Africa surrounded by nations on all of it’s borders. Rwanda is a beautiful country with lush forests and many hills. It is important to notice the point when the factions the Hutu and Tutsi began to develop and become a part of the Rwandan vocabulary and how the definition of these two groups has evolved throughout history. Emblematic of this relationship of the Rwandan people to history is contained in this quote from page 23 of the book, “In Rwandan history, everyone obeys authority. People revere power, and there isn’t enough education. You take a poor, ignorant population, and give them arms, and say ‘It’s yours. Kill’ They’ll obey”. The truly tragic history of why the Rwandans killed each other can be traced back to a principle created by a British anthropologist John Hannign Speke in 1863 called the “Hamitic Hypothesis”. In short the hypothesis delineates Hutu’s as the lesser people, and defines them as being tall and lanky with long noses, whereas, the Tutsi’s (the one’s subjected to the genocide) are short, stout people with very wide noses. The danger in this assumption that began with Speke and as will be proven throughout this blog may be the primary cause for the genocide that occurred because of the policies that followed the formulation of the hypothesis, we will seek to prove that “He who controls the definition controls the argument”…..